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South Korea’s president angers Israel by using old video to make point about human suffering | CNN

South Korea’s president has angered the Israeli government by sharing video on social media from 2024 that shows Israeli soldiers pushing a body off a building in the occupied West Bank. “We need to check if this is true, and if it is, we should find out what measures were taken,” President Lee Jae Myung said in the post on X on Friday that triggered a rare public spat between two nations with diplomatic relations spanning 60 years. In his post, Lee said there was “no difference” between wartime killings, the Holocaust and the sexual slavery of women under Japan’s colonial rule of Korea between 1910 to 1945. It was the reference to the Holocaust that appeared to anger the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which responded in an X post on Saturday, calling Lee’s remarks “unacceptable.” “The remarks by the President of Korea, Lee Jae Myung, including the trivialization of the massacre of Jews on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, are unacceptable and warrant strong condemnation,” the Israeli post said. The Foreign Ministry post added that “for some strange reason,” Lee had chosen to “dig up a story from 2024 and to cite a fake account that falsely pres

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Two Palestinians killed during settler attack on West Bank village, officials say

Two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, have been killed in an attack involving Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials. The Mayor of al-Mughayyir, Amin Abu…

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Two Palestinians killed during settler attack on West Bank village, officials say

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Escaped wolf returned to zoo after nine-day search, sparking celebrations in South Korea | CNN

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Israeli ambassador to Germany condemns Bezalel Smotrich’s tirade against chancellor

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South Korea’s president angers Israel by using old video to make point about human suffering | CNN

South Korea’s president has angered the Israeli government by sharing video on social media from 2024 that shows Israeli soldiers pushing a body off a building in the occupied West Bank. “We need to check if this is…

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Two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, have been killed in an attack involving Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials. The Mayor of al-Mughayyir, Amin Abu…

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The South Korean internet erupted in celebration as a 2-year-old wolf that escaped from a zoo in South Korea was captured safely Friday after a nine-day search that kept the nation on edge and made it a national celebrity. The male wolf,…

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T2 · Outlet reportThe GuardianApr 14, 2026

Ron Prosor says verbal attack on Friedrich Merz referencing Nazi regime ‘erodes the memory of the Holocaust’ Israel’s envoy to Germany has criticised a far-right Israeli cabinet member who made historically charged accusations…

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South Korea’s president has angered the Israeli government by sharing video on social media from 2024 that shows Israeli soldiers pushing a body off a building in the occupied West Bank. “We need to check if this is true, and if it is,…

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